I’ve been awfully busy writing a MVC3 application for a customer over the last month. Suffice it to say that there is a great deal of goodness in MVC3 that I really like. Especially the addition of some dynamic sugar to the overly strict and rigid MVC stack is a welcome change.

Anyway, when it came to bin-deploying MVC3 I was scratching my head a bit until I found Scott Hanselman’s post on what files are required. This has changed since beta so here is an updated list:

Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure.dll

System.Web.Helpers.dll

System.Web.Mvc.dll

System.Web.Razor.dll

System.Web.WebPages.Deployment.dll

System.Web.WebPages.dll

System.Web.WebPages.Razor.dll

All of these files can be found in the following locations and can simply be copied to the /bin folder of your deployment output.

Although I really like what the guys did with MVC3, this sort of deployment is pretty sub-optimal. Having that many late-bound assemblies that you just need to deploy while not having any reference to it is a problem for me. That requires me to write custom deployment scripts that copy that stuff over, and I really don’t like that.

Let’s hope they include something in Visual Studio SP1 that lets the deployment wizard copy these files for you to the output directory.